It’s happened to all of us – you walk past someone and you can hear every beat, riff and wail coming from their headphones. If you’ve ever wondered whether this could be damaging their hearing, the answer…

More than one in ten middle-aged people has difficulty following speech in noisy environments, according to an analysis of 165,000 people in the UK Biobank, a project following the health of half a million…

The genetic mutation causes hearing to deteriorate in the late teens or early twenties and get progressively worse with age.
Image from shutterstock.comJune 12, 2013

You may have read last week that, in a bid to curb graffiti, Sydney’s State Rail may trial Mosquito devices - technology that emits a high-pitched noise that’s audible only to people aged in their early…